[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Their language arts programs and some math programs as well as my work are all on this computer.

I've been following this operation with a bowl of popcorn. Very glad to see you were able to get back into Winders.

Now, here's a very good suggestion:

Go to this link. Download the ISO file of a utility called "PING" and simply burn it to a CD. It will boot your PC into a Linux variant and will allow you to make an image of your whole hard drive. Use this in combination with a decent size (160Gb +) USB external hard drive.

With the new USB drive plugged in and turned on at boot up you can send the drive image there and if your hard drive tanks, you'll have an image to restore back to a new hard drive.

The USB drive is also very handy for backups of docs and the kid's schoolwork. Ya just GOTTA have backups.

[Chickensoup]

This sounds like a good idea. I am going to have time to find one of those external things tomorrow. I will ping you to talk about it